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keita.kawabe@LIGO.ORG - posted 21:32, Monday 22 July 2024 - last comment - 10:18, Thursday 01 August 2024(79274)
HAM6 AUX laser alignment (1) (Francisco, Naoki, Betsy, Sheila, Keita)

We aligned the AUX laser in HAM5 so that it is roughly centered on OM1 AND is retroreflected by SRM. We haven't checked anything else.

Retroreflection was measured/evaluated using an iris right in front of the AUX laser launcher telescope. First the iris was well centered relative to the input light (1st attachment shows the scattering around the iris when it was closed down a bit), and we used a steering mirror and a beam splitter installed between the AUX laser and the SRM to get the SRM reflection coming back to the iris AND SRM transmission hitting the center of OM1 without touching SRM. It was easy. 2nd attachment shows the return beam on the iris after REALLY closing down the iris so the return beam clips on it. Centering on OM1 was based on just eyeballing using a sensor card.

We don't know where on the SRM or OFI the beam was (no easy reference). It seems that the beam was seen by ASC-AS_C but not centered on it.

The above was done before we were informed about a large ISI/HEPI rotation in YAW (alog 79272) so probably we'll do it again after moving SRM to compensate to get closer to the right alignment quickly (rather than walking the beam from where we are now slowly, checking the OM1 centering and SRM retroreflection many, many times).

In the end, we should make the SRM transmission hit the center of AS_C, make the beam retro reflected by SRM, and make the SRM reflection hit the center of SR2, all at the same time. For that, probably we'll have to make a minor adjustment to SRM.

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betsy.weaver@LIGO.ORG - 15:13, Tuesday 23 July 2024 (79287)

We also did a bit more looking at the Fast Shutter. While the optical surface and wires appear fine, there is also a strange heat/burn mark on the side of the toaster optic, low. Possibly the heat mark from the bumper bar above reflected something down to this side surface??

Note, best last pictures of Fast Shutter from last vent are at alog 60724.

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corey.gray@LIGO.ORG - 10:18, Thursday 01 August 2024 (79400)EPO

Tagging for EPO.